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on Friday, August 18, 2006 4:27:36 AM
I have to admit, I was wrong. When the peace deal was announced with France taking the lead in the UN force I was pessimistic but hopeful. On the one hand, I thought that the UN force would be vulnerable to the kind of attacks that eventually drove us (and the French) out of Beruit in the 1980s. I also thought that in the long term the international forces would end up being high value human sheilds. But the French have managed to sink below even my low expectations. They have bugged out before even being there. Who but the French could find a way to retreat before arriving?